"If you look at all the people involved - Ivo, Tony Wilson, McGee, Geoff Travis, myself - nobody had a clue about running a record company, and that was the best thing about it". (Daniel Miller, Mute Records). Richard King's "How Soon Is Now?" is a landmark survey of the record labels that make up the backbone of the independent music industry and the hugely inspirational, eccentric, impulsive and visionary figures who created them. One of the most tangible aftershocks of punk was its urgency to...
In this gifty and hilarious book, the author of "Hold Me Closer", Tony Danza and founder of the AmIRight.com and inthe80s.com web sites lists hundreds of the most offbeat misheard lyrics to songs from the 1980s. Included are songs from more than 200 artists and bands, including such classic stars as Madonna and Prince, to one-hit wonders like a-Ha and Toni Basil. In addition, there will be sidebars with such features as '80s trivia, song parodies, nuclear weapons and pop music, commercial soundt...
Neue Musik Im Musikunterricht - Pierre Boulez Und Die Serielle Musik
by Thomas Grasse
In Listening Subjects, David Schwarz uses psychoanalytic techniques to probe the visceral experiences of music listeners. Using classical, popular, and avant-garde music as texts, Schwarz addresses intriguing questions: why do bodies develop goose bumps when listening to music and why does music sound so good when heard "all around?" By concentrating on music as cultural artifact, Listening Subjects shows how the historical conditions under which music is created affect the listening experience....
This expanded and completely revised fourth edition is a unique handbook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to current leading lights such as Thomas Ades and Kaija Saariaho. There are concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. Topics such as the influence of jazz, notation, conducting, the madrigal, and why Stradivarius made such gre...
Featuring interviews with professional full-time musicians, audio engineers, and producers who are making their own way in today's independent and electronic music scenes, The Music Producer's Survival Stories: Interviews with Veteran, Independent, and Electronic Music Professionals will inform you, encourage you, and inspire you to pursue your own music career your way. This book is a companion volume to author Brian Jackson's The Music Producer's Survival Guide: Chaos, Creativity, and Career i...
Musiktherapie im Spannungsfeld zwischen Forschung und Praxis
by Friederike Bruckl
Prince has cut a singular path through the heart of popular music for more than 30 years. After making some of the most inventive albums of the '80s a including E1999E EPurple RainE and ESign of the TimesE a he turned his attention to redefining his role in the music industry changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol declaring war on his record label Warner Bros. and leading the internet revolution. His subsequent career has had many ups and downs but he remains a major commercial and...
The Cash Box Country Album Charts, 1964-1988
by Frank Hoffmann and George Albert
This book makes available the wealth of data contained in Cash Box's country album charts over a 25-year period. The information, previousy available only through a search of the weekly charts themselves, has been completely integrated and accessed via artist and album title entries. This compilation contains many features not found in any other reference tool of its type. In addition to its wide time span of coverage, most notable is the week-by-week listing of album-chart positions.
Ethnomusicology (New Grove Handbooks in Music, v.2)
A guide to ethnomusicology dealing with the history, scope, theory and methodology of the discipline and the state of study around the world. It is in two parts, pre and post-World War II with state of the art reports and covers ethnography, transcription, analysis of musical style and organology. Specialists on main geographical areas of study are among the contributors.
On Sound And Atmospheric Vibrations With The Mathematical Elements Of Music
by George Biddell Airy
A book that contains all you ever wanted to know about the rockers and the rappers, the music and the madness, the winners and the sinners, the hits and the misses. From the 20 best debut albums to the worst performers of all time, from the 15 most spectacular deaths to the top 10 reasons why your record royalties have not been paid, such things do not escape Dave Marsh and James Bernard. The most boring, the best, the worst, the most inspiring and the most embarrassing in the history of popular...
These fantastic flashcards feature 101 essential hints and tips for every guitarist.